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This form is almost unknown. In the following lines we find five-stress catalectic verse of dactyls and trochees combined:

Surely the thought in a man's heart hopes or fears

Now that forgetfulness needs must here have stricken

Anguish, and sweetened the sealed-up springs of tears.

(Swinburne: A Century of Roundels.)